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Ready Player One

Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One deserves to be on everyone’s actual bookshelf. It’s that good. Here’s a summary of what you learn in chapter one: Imagine Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg becomes an actual trillionare, loses his mind and becomes a recluse, and pledges his entire fortune to whoever can find his video game’s “easter egg”. All [...]

Helicopter Canada, 1968

While I am on about Movies, Helicopter Canada is a brilliant and funny portrait of 1968 Canada.

Bellflower, 2011

The Film Buff, my favourite video store, quoted me in a review of Bellflower. So kind of them.

Art & Copy, 2009

A disingenuous insult.

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